HJV Equipment

In 1949, Harry Jacob Vander Zaag, the namesake of HJV, left his father’s potato farm in Holland to seek farming opportunity in Canada. After 3 years of working on farms in Canada. Harry and his brother began farming in the Alliston area, planting their first 7 acres of potatoes by hand. He later married and raised four sons with his wife Bernice. After many years of successful potato farming as HJ Vander Zaag Farms Ltd. Harry sold the business to two of his sons, Homer and David, in 1990.

When the chance came to purchase an existing potato equipment dealership from local farmer and businessman Clarence Leach of Alliston in 1991, Homer and David couldn’t resist. They saw the need to have a local business supplying equipment and parts for the farming industry. Adding HJV Equipment to HJ Vander Zaag Farms Ltd.

HJV Equipment now has 5 locations in Ontario, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Michigan, specializing in potato, application, and process line equipment for handling root crops.